Imagining Multilingual Schools: Languages in Education and Glocalization

✍ Scribed by Ofelia García (editor); Tove Skutnabb-Kangas (editor); María E. Torres-Guzmán (editor)

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Leaves: 342
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book brings together visions and realities of multilingual schools throughout the world so as to examine the pedagogical, socioeducational and sociopolitical issues that impact on their development and success. It considers issues of multilingual schooling in different countries and for diverse populations.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Editors’ Preface
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Weaving Spaces and (De)constructing Ways for Multilingual Schools: The Actual and the Imagined
Part 2. Pedagogies, Values and Schools
Chapter 2. Identity Texts: The Imaginative Construction of Self through Multiliteracies Pedagogy
Chapter 3. Imagining Multilingual Education in France: A Language and Cultural Awareness Project at Primary Level
Chapter 4. Reimagining Multilingual America: Lessons from Native American Youth
Chapter 5. Attitudes Towards Language Learning in Different Linguistic Models of The Basque Autonomous Community
Part 3: Extending Formal Instructional Spaces
Chapter 6. Back to Basics: Marketing the Benefits of Bilingualism to Parents
Chapter 7. Popular Education and Language Rights in Indigenous Mayan Communities: Emergence of New Social Actors and Gendered Voices
Part 4. Tensions between Multiple Realities
Chapter 8. Imagined Multilingual Schools: How Come We Don't Deliver?
Chapter 9. Monolingual Assessment and Emerging Bilinguals: A Case Study in the US
Chapter 10. The Long Road to Multilingual Schools in Botswana
Part 5. Negotiating Policies of Implementation
Chapter 11. Nichols to NCLB: Local and Global Perspectives on US Language Education Policy
Chapter 12. Cultural Diversity, Multilingualism and Indigenous Education in Latin America
Chapter 13. Multilingualism of the Unequals and Predicaments of Education in India: Mother Tongue or Other Tongue?
Biographies
References
Index

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